Hi, I am Daryl Cagle.
This is Caglecast We're doing a special on Donald Trump Christmas cartoons,
and our special guest is Rick McKee.
Thanks
for having me.
So Rick, so this is your first one.
You wanna read it to us?
Yeah.
It's your typical MAGA Trump supporters saying under Trump,
we can say Merry Christmas again.
And then of course the second panel was saying, we just can't afford to have one.
Uh.
Because you know, it's
interesting they interview all these MAGA people and ask them what
they think about the rising prices.
And very often they just don't acknowledge the prices are rising.
It's
crazy.
Know, shocker, isn't it?
Oh, so here you've got the elf saying, I warned you not to
put Trump on the naughty list.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's look at Trump's truth.
And he says, Santa Claus says,
oh, lose our head of a toy.
Could be failing so badly.
He has to give the toys away.
Sad.
That's that's hilarious.
Thank you.
Yeah.
This one was, uh, from the first term when Trump was still on Twitter and he
was just, you know, as usual, insulting everybody he could possibly insult.
And, um, it was all still pretty new and fresh at the time.
And now we're so used to it.
We don't even, you know, bat an eye.
You do tons of wonderful, uh, Christmas cartoons.
I, the Trump Oh, thank you.
Cartoons for Christmas are just a little subset of them, and thank you.
That's, you know, our theme is Trump Christmas, so yes.
I just, uh, I should point out that you are a, a Tri Christmas treasure.
Oh, thank you very much.
I've been told that.
So Santa says Trump kept his promise.
He single Headedly brought back Michael Industry.
That's a great Santa.
That's great.
You know, it's, it's tough.
You, you have all these sort of cliched Christmas.
Metaphors and themes.
And so the challenge is to try to come up with something you haven't seen before.
And that it's, it's a challenge, but it's also, it's a fun challenge.
Uh,
well this was from, I think a previous government shutdown.
Yes.
You'll sh share eye out kid.
Yeah.
That is just, uh, that's wonderful.
But you know, those government shutdowns don't seem to bother him very much.
No.
In fact, he, this, this particular one, he was, he was all for it.
He was saying, you know, bring it on.
Uh, I, I'll, I'll shut the government down.
And you, you have to wonder about.
The, the kind of thinking that goes into that.
Well, it looked like it was kind of strategic for him.
He wanted to do lots of unpopular cuts and that let him facilitate that.
Yeah.
Well, I was talking about this one in particular.
This was from, I don't know, 2018.
Um, but you're right, this time he didn't care either.
He was all for it.
And, uh, you know, obviously trying to blame the Democrats for it.
He's just so tiresome.
But, um, he's got his little bunny suit there in the background.
Um.
That's wonderful Cartoon and, uh, kissing Butt, uh, mistletoe and Trump.
This, this is kind of a cartoon classic now.
Yeah, this is, he can run this every year.
He is, uh, and, and again, this is, uh, probably from the first term, but he
just, these reluctant re Republicans and he, he just says no concern about anybody
and they can just kiss his butt and they, you know, they know they have to.
I think, I think lately you're seeing a little pushback on that.
Not a lot, but the, the, the most I've seen, you know, with
like Marjorie Taylor Greene,
you attribute that to the Epstein files.
I think it's, I think some of it's the Epstein files.
I think of it like some of it says lame duck status.
Uh, I think some of it is the impending midterms.
You know, I think, I think they see the handwriting on the wall there, and I
think they probably blame him somewhat.
What do you think?
I, I think it's Epstein files.
Yeah.
Well, it could be.
I just think, you know, I hate to be cynical, but, uh, I'm just
afraid these Epstein files are gonna be so heavily redacted by the
time we finally get to see them.
I'd be surprised if his name comes up now.
Like the stuff that came out today from the Epstein estate.
He has no control over that, but, um.
Epstein files with, with Pam Bondi and Cash Patel.
I just have a feeling they're gonna go through and sanitize his name out
of all of it, but hopefully I'm wrong.
It's pretty crazy.
I was mentioned in the Epstein files.
You were, I was.
There was one, uh, Ghislaine Maxwell thing, writing to her lawyer asking if she
could, uh, sue the media for defamation because this one cartoon was so insulting.
Um, that was great.
I know I, I need like a little medal.
I'm in the Epstein files.
Oh, that's a badge of honor.
Was that, was that your, was your name?
It
was your cartoon?
No, it was Bill Day Cartoon, but it was Kygo Cartoons.
Cartoons.
So, uh, oh man.
I would love that.
Yeah.
Oh, the choice of our profession,
man.
Good for you.
Have you been a good boy this year?
Witch Hunt.
That's a wonderful, uh, here.
No, I'm sorry.
I can't do any of this.
What?
No.
I'm afraid you can't fire me, Donald.
That's good.
That's
very cute.
My Christmas list over fraternity election, 270
electoral votes, not a loser.
My little conspiracy theory kit by enemy's hands on pikes.
Those are all the things he wanted and his, his spelling excellent.
Yeah.
You know, Trump is such a fun guy to cartoon, you know, the way he looks,
the way he talks and, you know, you assume the way he probably writes.
So, uh.
This is one that I thought was, uh, wonderful from last year in the election.
It is usually customary to wait until after the holidays for the returns.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
You had them as leftovers in the refrigerator, which, yeah,
just a very popular cartoon.
Maybe that was your most popular one.
Oh, that's fun.
All great stuff.
That's fun.
Thanks.
Yeah, that was sort of, you know, it was before the election and, um.
You could kind of see nobody wanted either one of those guys, but you know, I guess
maybe that's the way it is every election.
But
yeah.
And uh, this one's kind of an evergreen that's gonna last
as long as Trump's around.
Yep.
I'd forgotten about that one.
Rick, what we're gonna do now is say goodbye to you and show a slideshow of
everybody else's Christmas cartoons.
Okay.
Uh, so anything else you wanna add?
No, that's it.
That's good
for me.
Okay, well hey, you've been doing some very funny AI stuff and we're gonna
do another podcast and show some of that and we'll see you back soon.
Alright?
And, uh, we all love you, Rick.
No thanks.
Love you too.
Have a good Christmas, have good holidays and appreciate it.
And I. Uh, yeah, I, I look forward to doing the AI one.
Yeah, take care.
Thanks again, Rick.
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